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Nursq Mar 25 @ 8:55am

UI doesnt fit my tv screen

When docking the steam deck to my tv, it is a 1136x768 i believe and still the ui doesnt seem to be able to fit in fully to the tv, is there anyway to resize the ui to conform to the tv?

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Originally posted by retro_Ed:

Settings - Display - Automatically Scale Image (off)

Use slider to preventing overscaling.
Make image smaller.

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Haruspex Mar 25 @ 8:57am

Change the resolution to match your TV's. Televisions today are basically all 16:9, so using 1920x1080 or 1280x720 should fit exactly.

Nursq Mar 25 @ 12:30pm

Originally posted by Haruspex:
Change the resolution to match your TV's. Televisions today are basically all 16:9, so using 1920x1080 or 1280x720 should fit exactly.

I tried every resolution, nothing fits. I have an lcd tv from the early 2000s. It might be 16:9 but even then everything tends to stretch beyond the tvs screen so everything on the edges tends to be cut off

Haruspex Mar 25 @ 1:54pm

Originally posted by Nursq:
I have an lcd tv from the early 2000s.

Hmm. Check your TV settings to see if it has some kind of scaling settings that might make things fit better. That's a pretty unique situation.

Nursq Mar 25 @ 2:24pm

Originally posted by Haruspex:
Originally posted by Nursq:
I have an lcd tv from the early 2000s.

Hmm. Check your TV settings to see if it has some kind of scaling settings that might make things fit better. That's a pretty unique situation.

Already ahead of you, tv has no such settings, i know there are different ui that have the ability to resize it, such as amazon fire. It is odd because steam has the native resolution of my tv, yet it is still to large for my tv

Haruspex Mar 25 @ 2:42pm

Originally posted by Nursq:
Originally posted by Haruspex:

Hmm. Check your TV settings to see if it has some kind of scaling settings that might make things fit better. That's a pretty unique situation.
Already ahead of you, tv has no such settings, i know there are different ui that have the ability to resize it, such as amazon fire. It is odd because steam has the native resolution of my tv, yet it is still to large for my tv

I'm out of ideas then. I know some games have a setting to change the "safe zone" that UI elements will appear in, because some TVs seem to cut off more or less of the very outer edges of the screen, while others fit within their bezels perfectly. I don't believe they accounted for this within SteamOS itself though. I think this problem used to be more common than it is with more current displays.

Nursq Mar 25 @ 3:01pm

Originally posted by Haruspex:
Originally posted by Nursq:
Already ahead of you, tv has no such settings, i know there are different ui that have the ability to resize it, such as amazon fire. It is odd because steam has the native resolution of my tv, yet it is still to large for my tv

I'm out of ideas then. I know some games have a setting to change the "safe zone" that UI elements will appear in, because some TVs seem to cut off more or less of the very outer edges of the screen, while others fit within their bezels perfectly. I don't believe they accounted for this within SteamOS itself though. I think this problem used to be more common than it is with more current displays.

Thank you for your input in any case

Last edited by Nursq; Mar 25 @ 3:10pm